Scientists Untangle the Volatile Processes That Shaped Earth
New research untangles many of the processes involved in shaping Earth, revealing that the mini-planets that added to Earth had previously undergone melting and evaporation….
New research untangles many of the processes involved in shaping Earth, revealing that the mini-planets that added to Earth had previously undergone melting and evaporation….
A team of scientists reveals how graphene, a single-atom-thin layer of carbon, can be forged into three-dimensional objects by using laser light. Researchers from Finland…
Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves with both the LIGO and Virgo detectors….
This new ESO image shows planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, as it emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles….
New research reveals that the strange formations on Pluto’s surface are made almost entirely of methane ice, and likely formed as a specific kind of…
A newly published study from the Max Planck Institute compares the olfactory bulbs of individuals with and without Parkinson’s disease, revealing that the total volume…
This newly released ESO image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1964, which resides approximately 70 million light-years away in the constellation of Lepus (The Hare). NGC…
This short ESOcast video explains why astronomers need radio telescopes like ALMA to understand phenomena in some of the dustiest and most distant regions of…
Researchers at Yale University have developed a simple device that uses sound waves to store quantum information and convert it from one form to another,…
This Cassini Spacecraft image shows the brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looking ethereal against the blackness of space. The rest of the moon,…
Next Summer NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than any other in human history. Parker…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows galaxy ESO 376-16, which is located roughly 23 million light-years from Earth. The distances to objects…
NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) is investigating charged particles to solve one of its biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars: space radiation and…
According to a newly published study from MIT, Earth’s oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extinction of species in future millennia. In the…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft captured this striking image of Jupiter as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet. The image was taken on…
Using radio and X-ray data, astronomers reveal that the mini-halo in the Perseus cluster seems to be influenced both by the AGN activity and the…
A team of researchers has made the first demonstration of a solid state cooling device based on the electrocaloric effect. This thin flexible device that…
New research details how an electrocatalyst made up of copper nanoparticles provides the conditions necessary to break down carbon dioxide to form ethylene, ethanol, and…